Iain Buchanan schrieb:
R C Mitchell wrote:
I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I
decided
to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation
ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying
a real distribution :) </flame>
Typically now you'd prove me wrong and say how you've been using
<dieHardLinux> for years... anyhoo welcome!
[snip excellent problem report]
I'm reluctant to believe that this is down to an arbitrary hardware
fault,
since everything else works fine. It does seem to have something to
do with
emerging gentoo-sources.
hm, this screams hardware fault all over - I haven't seen one issue like
this come to anything else. Usually it's the RAM. Can you humour me
and try a stick from another machine, or at least reseat it?
Iain's diagnosis seems about right. I would start with a nice 2h
memtest86+ test followed with a 1h cpuburn test.
You could also try to download vanilla kernel sources and try to compile
them on Ubuntu. If you experience the same problem, you know it's not
Gentoo's fault ;)
By the way: Can you post some parameters of your system (CPU, age, ...)
and tell us, whether you use 64bit or 32bit versions of Ubuntu and Gentoo?
